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Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Froggin' and Mousin' at Dusk

Lastnight's adventure thoroughly enthused me for fishing big floating bugs at night, so I tried again tonight. My goal was to get my first trout on a mouse. These were patterns I would be using:

This is what the radar showed just before I left. I figured I had just enough time, and sure enough I was right.

There were dobson flies about, and that made me more confident in the success of big dries when darkness fell. For a few hours the only fish I caught using the frog pattern were cookie cutter smallmouth, though I did get one brown and one rainbow to move to the fly. When darkness fell I began hucking the mouse to the banks, missing some really good takes. Eventually one held on, and I was surprised to see the size, or rather lack of it. Little brookies do eat mice apparently....

Was the decision to use the mouse inspired by my comment the other day? I tried a mouse on bass for the first time the other evening and it was killing it... o much so that one of the bass actually broke off my mouse and took him home as a present! I did find the mouse tough to cast, however.